This Cookbook provides hundreds of tested scripts that you can use right away to administer Windows systems using Microsoft’s new tool-everything from automating routine tasks to working with files, event logs and other forms of structured data to managing the users and resources of complex Windows networks.

You get an array of recipes covering PowerShell fundamentals, common tasks, and administrator tasks, including:

- Use the inplaceInstallPrompt:true parameter in CreateSilverlight.js to present the Silverlight installer directly from the current home page rather than redirecting the end-user to the Silverlight site for the installer.

- Use the <div> tag into which Silverlight content is presented to create pre-install content (e.g. a static image that provides a glimpse of the final site experience when the user installs Silverlight) and present the Silverlight installer button as an overlay over that image;

- Use the Silverlight.ua.Browser property to provide guidance to the user (for example, warning them that they

may not be able to install Silverlight if they are using Netscape 4.0 as their browser).

- Use a timeout delegate to see if the installation is complete, and, if so, refresh the browser automatically so the end-user doesn’t have to manually hit F5 to reload the content.

Quote from Rob: “my job will be to build out SubSonic as the “sweetness” on top of ASP.NET and (more notably) the new MVC platform. SubSonic will be the convention-driven toolset for Microsoft’s new MVC framework.”